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January 29, 1998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S201 (A) offsetting any tax decrease; and speech after speech after speech on the as proudly as you did, even though our Gov- (B) offsetting any spending increase. floor of this body about how we do not ernment required black and white solders in Mr. HOLLINGS. This is a short, one- have truth in budgeting. We do not the same Army to live, sleep, eat, and travel paragraph bill. It says that Congress have a balanced budget. We are not separate and apart while fighting and dying for our country. cannot use any of these surpluses and even close to a balanced budget and are But because of the rule of law today’s serv- trust funds for any tax cut or any not going to be for some time to come. icemen in America suffer no such indig- spending increase where we have caps. And the idea of people talking about nity.... My mother, a widow, raised two Maybe, Mr. President, they will get tax cuts or using the budget surplus, boys. She had an eighth grade education. She the money from the tobacco settle- which does not exist, to using that sur- was a domestic worker who scrubbed floors. ment. I don’t know where they will get plus to cut taxes or to increase spend- One son became the first black mayor of a the money from. ing is an absolute absurdity. major American city. The other sits here You are looking at a Senator who I think this year, 1998, we are antici- today as chairman of a House Intelligence Committee. Only in America, only in Amer- voted against spending increases and pating a $100 billion surplus in Social ica, Colonel North, only in America. against tax cuts last year in order to Security. So I lend my support to what try to bring about fiscal responsibility. the President said the other night. And Mr. President, LOUIS STOKES said We enjoy a good economy, Mr. Presi- I lend my support to what the Senator these words at a time of great tension dent. And we want to stay the course. from South Carolina just said. in our country and in the Congress. In doing so, he gave voice to what Abra- But let us practice truth in budgeting, (The remarks of Mr. BUMPERS per- and let us mean it. I have provided all taining to the introduction of S. 1586 ham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. the facts and figures here. are located in today’s RECORD under There is a chart that everybody in ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and That, Mr. President, is really who America ought to see: the gross Fed- Joint Resolutions.’’) LOUIS STOKES is, a truly honorable man eral debt. In the past year, 1997, we ran The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. who represents the finest aspects of the a deficit not of $22 billion but of $188 THOMAS). The Senator from Ohio. American spirit. Congressman STOKES billion. The Congressional Budget Of- Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I ask rose from poverty to become a great fice projects an actual deficit of $170 unanimous consent to proceed for up to American statesman. He was Ohio’s billion. And, Mr. President, in 1999, the 20 minutes as in morning business. first African American member of the deficit will increase from $170 billion to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without U.S. Congress. He was the first African $200 billion. Why? Because rather than objection, it is so ordered. American ever named to the House Ap- propriations Committee. heading in the right direction, Con- f gress and the President last year in- First, first, first, again and again and HONORING CONGRESSMAN LOUIS again, Mr. President. Where a path had creased spending and cut out revenues. STOKES Under current policy, the deficit will not been carved out before, LOUIS continue to soar, right on up and away Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I rise STOKES took the lead and blazed a trail to $205 billion by the year 2000. this afternoon to commemorate an im- by himself. He was chairman of the So everybody ought to understand portant event in the history of my Congressional Black Caucus, he was that Congress and the White House can State, the State of Ohio, and also the chairman of the House Ethics Com- make all the wonderful talks they like; history of this Congress. Over the just- mittee, he was chairman of the House and everyone can say, ‘‘Well, the Presi- concluded recess, my good friend, Con- Intelligence Committee, he was chair- dent wants to use those funds for gressman LOU STOKES, announced he man of the historic House committee spending, and I want to use it for tax will retire at the end of this Congress. that investigated the assassinations of cuts.’’ That suits me, whatever you all LOU STOKES will retire after 30 years President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Lu- want to do, but let us have truth in representing the people of his Cleve- ther King, Jr. He was chairman and is budgeting and let us not use any of the land area district. currently ranking member of the ap- trust funds as an offset. Mr. President, when I first entered propriations subcommittee on VA–HUD The bills I introduce today will the House of Representatives in 1983, overseeing $87 billion of our Federal achieve both of these goals; they will LOUIS STOKES had already been there budget. ensure an honest budget and protect for 14 years—14 years building friend- For the last 5 years he has been the Social Security and other trust funds. ships and developing a reputation as a dean of our State’s congressional dele- I thank the distinguished Chair and powerful and effective leader. gation. yield the floor. LOU STOKES is a leader. Mr. Presi- Mr. President, I am proud to have Mr. BUMPERS addressed the Chair. dent, he is more than that. LOU STOKES served for so long with this truly great The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- is a good man. One of my own favorite American, here in the Senate for the ator from Arkansas. memories of LOU STOKES, and frankly last 3 years, as well as the 8 years we Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, what it is one of my memories that I will served together in the U.S. House of is the parliamentary situation? carry with me all my life and my ca- Representatives. So today, Mr. Presi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning reer in politics, was the very moving dent, I join the people of Ohio in business has just concluded. speech that Congressman LOU STOKES thanking Congressman LOU STOKES for made when he and I served together on all he has done to move our State and f the Iran-Contra Committee. Mr. Presi- our country forward. EXTENSION OF MORNING dent, this was a contentious time. Con- LOUIS STOKES’s hometown newspaper, BUSINESS gressman STOKES and I did not always the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says that Mr. BUMPERS. I ask unanimous con- agree on everything about these hear- he is ‘‘A man who, through word and sent, Mr. President, that I be permitted ings or about the facts of that series of deed, created a legacy of exemplary to proceed in morning business for no events that led to the Iran-Contra public service.... After his long years more than 15 minutes in order to intro- hearings. But there was a moment dur- of distinguished service, Congress duce a bill. ing the hearings when LOU STOKES won’t be the same without him.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without spoke from the heart and he really let Mr. President, how true that is. objection, it is so ordered. us know what kind of a person he is, So to our friend, LOU STOKES; his f sort of what makes him tick. We really wife, Jay; his children, Shelley, An- had an insight into the soul of this gela, Louis, Lorene; and his grand- TRUTH IN BUDGETING very good man. children, who I know he cherishes so Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, prior In his remarks he expressed heartfelt much, Brett, Eric, Grant, Kelley, Kim- to introducing my bill, let me just lend love of this great country of ours. Let berley, Alexandra, and Nicolette, my support to the remarks just made me quote a portion of what Congress- thank you very much. Thank you for by the Senator from South Carolina. man LOU STOKES said at that time: sharing him with us. We wish you, Con- He and the Senator from North Da- I wore the uniform of this country in gressman STOKES, and your children kota, Senator DORGAN, have made World War II in a segregated Army. I wore it and your grandchildren and the rest of VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:42 Oct 31, 2013 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\1998SENATE\S29JA8.REC S29JA8 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S202 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 1998 your family all the best for a wonderful much by JOHN GLENN’s daring exploit. a federal government failure so mas- future. That, Mr. President, was a great day to sive that it may take the taxpayers f be an American. I hear a lot of that en- years, even decades, to burrow out thusiasm today after the announce- from underneath it. HONORING SENATOR JOHN GLENN ment that Senator GLENN will be going What could be so potentially dev- Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I will back into space.